Make Out The Sound is MADE-

well, almost, anyway, just need to do some printing and cutting and stuffing-

Handmade in the U.S. of A.

featuring artwork by Aaron Frisby, Angela Renee Chase, Victoria Orlowski, and moi 

(except I ripped my drawing off from a Todd Golnick doodle I once saw- with

consent. Mine's the ugly drawing on notebook paper.)

Come one, Come all to VZD's  next Friday night, May 6th, for the Gardes' new album release.

It kicks off at 10 pm with a stellar set by Sad Sad Bicycle and the Gardes will

be taking the stage around 11ish, going on second.  The Gussissin will then be playing

out the rest of the night.

Sad Sad Bicycle will be playing at the Norman Music Festival this Fri. night, April 29th,

at 8 p.m. on the DOJO stage- 2 blocks east of the Main Stage.  

The Gussissin will be playing the Norman Music Festival on Sat. April 30th at 2 pm on

the Zanzibar stage.

Also, I wanted to warn people that see this booked as the Gardes that, unfortunately, Aaron Siemers will be absent for this show.  He's played at every Gardes show except the very first one, I believe- not counting a few times when the band was booked but couldn't make it so I showed up to do a solo spot. Due to situations, he won't be making it back to OK for a bit after this, and when we had the slot open at VZD's, we decided to go ahead and release the album we made and do our live rendition of it.   We did however make the album with Aaron, and he is playing on it.  Tanner, our bass player for our most "live band about town" era, also makes an appearance on the record.  I have no intention of being an Axl Rose or Billy Corgan, i.e. playing in a band with no original members, but whatever, let's not take it all so seriously- and I don't think too many people can be accused of that with the state they've left me in, haha.  The bastards.  An alternate name for this band could just be called Make Out The Sound- we almost used that as a new band name, but screw it- what difference does it make in the end? We all die. So let's live.

For the show, our friend, Aunk of Stillwater- full-name- Aunkohau Tsoodle, will be playing the bass and Beau Jennings of the Gussissin will be providing the drums.  I'll be singing and playing along w/ Victoria O.   

Picking back up the blog/newsletter.

Album Release Show- VZD's, May 6th, Friday Night-

New Album- MAKE OUT THE SOUND by the Gardes

also featuring Sad Sad Bicycle  and  The Gussissin

collage by Angela Renee Chase,

flier by the Frank Lava Group

About this:

I'd been thinking about doing a few Gardes albums with Aaron Cord at some point, bringing in a female singer to switch up some of the ingredients, and it sounded like a plan.   I wrote several songs and began singing them with Victoria Pickle, who once performed on stage with me as "Peanut", playing a Planters can, which, by the way, makes for a great percussion instrument.  Soon, we had enough for an album's worth and she and I were in a cottage in Hawaii, originally built for the purpose of being a recording studio, as yet unused- so with a click of a button, we began recording on Pickle's sister's laptop.  This was intended to be done within a few days just to reflect the duo performance we'd given lately, so we were going to call it Make Out The Sound.  However, next, we met with Aaron in Portland, who immediately got the itch to throw down bass, percussion, etc. and soon it was decided to be the Gardes, and the album was entitled Make Out The Sound.  Now, the Gardes has shapeshifted once again.  It's a monster I can't really control.  Hope you can make it out.